Major kept his economic team unchanged for seven months after Black Wednesday before he replaced Norman Lamont with Kenneth Clarke as Chancellor of the Exchequer, after months of press criticism of Lamont and disastrous defeat at a by-election in Newbury.

In May he spoke for Alan Sked of the Anti-Federalist League ( the forerunner of the United Kingdom Independence Party ) who was standing at the Newbury by-election.

During the same debate, Smith referred to a recent Government defeat in the Newbury by-election, a poor showing in the local elections, and a subsequent Cabinet reshuffle by saying that, " If we were to offer that tale of events to the BBC Light Entertainment Department as a script for a programme, I think that the producers of Yes Minister would have turned it down as hopelessly over the top.

During the Newbury by-election in May 1993, Lamont was asked at a press conference whether he most regretted claiming to see " the green shoots of recovery " or " singing in his bath ".

* Newbury by-election, 1993

However, Lamont's unpopularity did not necessarily affect Cameron: he was considered as a potential " kamikaze " candidate for the Newbury by-election, which includes the area where he grew up.

The by-election in Newbury was the first by-election of the 1992 – 1997 parliament, and the first in a string of by-election losses for the Conservative Party who were in their fourth consecutive term of office.

* Newbury by-election, 1993

He contested Newbury at the 1997 General Election but lost heavily to the 1993 by-election incumbent Liberal Democrat David Rendel.

The son of James Clifton Brown of Amelia Rowe, he was elected to the House of Commons for Newbury at an unopposed by-election on 6 June 1922.

:* " to construct a tube railway in continuation of the Central London Line from Liverpool Street eastwards to points where it will connect with the Loughton and Grange Hill lines ( probably near Leyton and Newbury Park so as to permit running through trains to stations in the West End of London and beyond without passing over the congested London and North Eastern Railway ( LNER ) lines at Stratford and "

* West Newbury incorporated 1819 from Newbury.

Groveland is located in the northwestern part of Essex County, and is bordered by Haverhill to the west and northwest, West Newbury to the northeast, a small portion of Newbury to the east, Georgetown to the southeast, and Boxford to the southwest.

From the end of the bridge, Route 97 heads south through the town to Georgetown, while Route 113 bears eastward along the river towards West Newbury.

Groveland is a member of the Pentucket Regional School District, which includes the towns of West Newbury and Merrimac.

Junior and senior high school students attend Pentucket Regional Middle School and Pentucket Regional High School, respectively, which are located in West Newbury ( the middle school straddles the town line between Groveland and West Newbury ).

Haverhill is bordered by Merrimac to the northeast, West Newbury and Groveland to the east, Boxford and a small portion of North Andover to the south, Methuen to the southwest, and Salem, Atkinson and Plaistow, New Hampshire, to the north.

97 / 113 to Groveland ) and the Rocks Bridge to West Newbury, just south of the Merrimac town line.

Merrimac is roughly diamond-shaped, and is bordered by Amesbury and Lake Attitash to the northeast, West Newbury to the southeast, Haverhill to the southwest, Newton, New Hampshire, to the north and northwest, South Hampton, New Hampshire, to the far northeast, and Plaistow, New Hampshire, on the western corner.

All regional schools, however, are located in neighboring West Newbury, Massachusetts.

Image: Merrimac-westnewbury-aerial. jpg | Aerial view of Merrimac and neighboring West Newbury

Newbury originally included Newburyport, set off in 1764, and West Newbury, set off in 1819.

Newbury is located along the Atlantic Ocean, and is bordered by Newburyport to the north, West Newbury to the northwest, a small portion of Groveland to the west, Georgetown to the southwest, and Rowley to the south.

Plate 25. West Newbury.

Situated south of the New Hampshire border, the city is bordered the Gulf of Maine ( Atlantic Ocean ) to the east, Newbury to the south, West Newbury to the west, Amesbury to the northwest, and Salisbury to the north.

West Newbury is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.

West Newbury was first settled in 1635 as part of neighboring Newbury.

Category: People from Newbury, Berkshire

Although DRI was based in Pacific Grove and later in Monterey, California, USA, the work on DOS Plus started in Newbury, Berkshire, UK, where Digital Research Europe had its OEM Support Group (

Perche had come to England to try and recover the honour of Perche which had been lost in 1204 by his mother ( a niece of John, King of England ) – this included Newbury and Shrivenham in Berkshire, Toddington in Buckinghamshire, and Haughley in Suffolk.

Category: People from Newbury, Berkshire

* St. Nicholas ' school, Newbury, Berkshire, 1859

* East End, Newbury ( Newbury is in Berkshire, but the nearby village of East End is south of the border in Hampshire )

* Newbury, Berkshire

Newbury is a civil parish and the principal town in the west of the county of Berkshire in England.

Newbury is part of, and the administrative centre of, the district administered by the unitary authority of West Berkshire.

Newbury serves as the major commercial and retail centre of West Berkshire.

The Newbury Bypass near Donnington, Berkshire | Donnington

The Berkshire Stand and The Grandstand at Newbury Racecourse

There are three main local radio stations broadcasting in the Newbury area-a publicly-funded radio service from the BBC, BBC Radio Berkshire-and two independent local radio stations-The Breeze ( formerly ' Newbury Sound ' and ' Kick FM ') which broadcasts from Newbury, and Heart Berkshire ( formerly 210FM ) which broadcasts into the area from nearby Reading.

* Royal Berkshire History: Newbury

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